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Date:      Thu, 1 Aug 2002 00:02:51 +0200
From:      Ian Barwick <barwick@gmx.net>
To:        Maciej Szewczyk <rodion@pirx.9lo.lublin.pl>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: files to files with .txt
Message-ID:  <200208010002.51591.barwick@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020731230256.A19666@pirx.9lo.lublin.pl>
References:  <20020731230256.A19666@pirx.9lo.lublin.pl>

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On Wednesday 31 July 2002 23:02, Maciej Szewczyk wrote:
> Hi,
> I have about 1000 files.
> ls -1
> 1
> 2
> 3
(...)
> ...
> ...
> 998
> 999
> 1000
> And now I must have 1000 files with .txt ->
> ls -1
> 1.txt
> 2.txt
> 3.txt
> ...
> ...
> 998.txt
> 999.txt
> 1000.txt
>

Something along the lines of:

  find  -E .  -regex './[0-9]+' -exec mv {} {}.txt \;

You'll want to be sure that 'find' finds the right
files to rename.

HTH

Ian Barwick
barwick@gmx.net



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